The homelab
Since I was a little kid I've always had a love for computes. Later on, that love transformed to a love for servers – hence that's why I got myself a tiny homelab.
Currently, the homelab is rocking the following setup: One Proliant Microserver G8 8TB disk, 8GB RAM, simple celeron CPU, 10Gbit Network running Debian 9. Currently using this as a shared storage (iSCSI) between my to hypervisors. I had two of those before, but I gave one away.
One homebuild server with an SuperMicro X9SCI/X9SCA motherboard, Xeon E3-1240 V2, 32GB RAM and 4TB storage (mostly ZFS with alot of SSD cache) Currently running Proxmox in a HA-environment
One homebuild PC that was repurposed into a server. ASRock H61 Pro BTC motherboard, Intel i5-2400, 16GB RAM and 1,1 TB of ZFS with SSD-cache storage. Also running Proxmox in a HA-environment
An EdgeRouter X-SFP (serving the secondary connection”
Three MikroTik Switches – RouterBOARD 260GS, 260GSP & CSS326-24G-2S+RM.
A Meraki accesspoint
Thinkpad W530
This is the hardware my environment utilizes. I am running Pfsense in a virtual environment instead of using the Edgerouter as the main router. The reason is that I wanted a more advanced firewall than the EdgeRouter on my “main” connection. And the reason that I run pfsense in a virtual machine is because I want the ability to easily restore backups in case if something goes wrong – which pfsense often do when I upgrade for some reason.
I hope that I can get a newer server in the coming month so I can replace my ASRock “server” and convert that one to a router instead – hopefully.